El jueves, 5 de enero de 2006 00:25, David Nusinow escribió: > Hi all, > I'm thinking that we should drop > general/000_stolen_from_linuxwacom_wacom_driver.diff all together. I've > looked at the new upstream release (0.7.2) and it's vastly different than > what we're currently shipping. The driver is currently at a point where it > deserves its own package, like the synaptics driver. The FTBFS's on mips > and mipsel are due to symbol issues with this driver and we're getting bug > reports about it causing serious issues for this reason. I think my hack > job on updating it to 6.8 failed miserably. So rather than write the > Imakefile necessary to build 0.7.2 in-tree, I'd rather remove it and > resolve the bugs by using upstream's build system. We're going to be > shipping the driver externally for 7.0 anyway, so this will mainly be a > head-start on that. Hello. I think that I will take this baby with me. > The major issues are that people who need this driver may not be > satisfied with the one that comes with Xorg. We may have to hack together a > package for them. Another major issue is that the driver appears to require > the Xorg sources to build, which means that the driver package would have > to temporarily patch the necessary sources in to its tree (how problematic > this is, I don't know). If someone actually owns one of these touchpads and Well, it was in the same state in the past. I was certainly related to Wacom's a couple of years ago and I investigated a bit the driver status. In fact, I started to look how to integrate XFree86 SDK in the archive, as the wacom driver will benefit from having up-to-date headers and the like. But I never took this really seriously. I can try the "hack" that I thought of, simply copying periodically several headers in the package. If I would use XSF SVN as repository, an external relationship for the required files will be wonderful, I think, as the upgrade would be automatic. > would like to take responsibility for this driver, I'd love to give it > away. I can't personally handle it, lacking the hardware, but I'd be happy > to facilitate anyone. > > Thoughts? As I said, I will try to get something in a reasonable state next week, but I cannot promise anything. Given the level of enthusiasm, I do not think that anyone has much interest in it, but anyway, if you are going to touch it, please send me a note before. Best regards, Ender. -- Network engineer Debian Developer
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